John Miller makes NYPD move official

12/27/13 10:47 AM EST

It's finally official: John Miller is leaving CBS to join the NYPD in a high-level counterterrorism role, the CBS correspondent announced on WCBS Thursday afternoon.

Miller is jumping over immediately but don't expect him to completely disappear from the CBS airwaves. CBS News President David Rhodes told our Capital New York colleague Alex Weprin that Miller will appear on CBS as an official law enforcement representative.

"We do plan to have him on 'CBS This Morning' as an NYPD official in what I think will be his first week on the job which is Jan. 6," Rhodes said. "He will be 'John Miller, NYPD,' and we will be transparent with the audience with what his role is. John is going to be I’m sure a guest with us, he will be someone who we cover, and he is going to be a public figure. So you will probably continue to see him on CBS, just in a different capacity and I’m sure not quite as much."

Miller, who before CBS had worked at NYPD, LAPD, the FBI and in the office of the Director of National Intelligence, will be working with his former boss, incoming NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton.

"We have a lot of regard for John, we don’t like to lose him, but if it is to public service and law enforcement, that he cares about, we don’t feel it is right to stand in his way," Rhodes said. "He knows that if and when he wants to return to journalism, we are going to welcome him back."